I started personal training and trying to think of some healthy foods which I can make at home for dinner or during weekends. Google food has unknown calories. I am looking for body recomposition and to eat around 1800 calories with approx 100 gm protein. Can you mention your daily calorie/protein/carb target and what foods do you buy/eat in general?
Grilled chicken
Do you buy fresh everyday or thaw meat from freezer?
Costco frozen chicken
Daily calories depends on your goals whether you are trying to maintain weight, lose fat or build muscles. Assuming you are maintaining, you would want at least 1gram protein per lb of bodyweight e.g. if you weigh 175lbs then you would want to eat 175 grams of protein a day. After that 0.3gram of fat per lb of bodyweight and then remaining carbs assuming you are on a 2000 calorie diet. This is the diet part. This helps you with your weight. To build muscles you have to work out. For meals, make whatever you can within the macros defined above and you should be good. I justbuy pre made chicken breast, turkey etc and eat with with veggies, greens, rice and other carbs
Isn't 175 gms of protein too much?
Where do you buy pre made chicken breast? Do you buy fresh everyday or thaw from freezer?
Eggs with veggies for lunch, chicken/lamb/gyro shawarma for dinner. Intermittent fasting from 7pm to noon.
Where do you get shawarma?
I eat out. It's not cheap but I found it to be the only way I stick to the diet consistently
180/180/60 protein/carbs/fat I always have a protein smoothie at breakfast. Easy way to guzzle a huge amount of greens and protein in like 10 seconds. Banana and crushed ice for flavour. Protein dessert: 1 banana, 1 scoop protein powder, 1 cup greek yogurt: https://youtu.be/tcD1YJB3l9U?t=917 Eye of Round Roast. Cooked at 500f in the oven for 2.5 hours. The recipe is easy to find on the internet. Cheap and tastes great.
That's 2000 calories. Are you trying body recomposition?
Shakshuka is really healthy, just go easy on the bread. Otherwise, just go for lean protein, healthy carbs and veggies. Make your plate 1/4 or 1/2 protein, 1/4 carbs, 1/2 or 1/4 veggies.
Starving yourself isn’t a diet
If your goal is to bulk then just eat a ton, doesn’t really matter what the macro breakdown is as long as you get enough protein. Given how expensive it is to buy and eat enough food to sustain a calorie surplus (at least for me and my insane metabolism), I would definitely try to leverage the free google food as part of your intake.
I agree, if you aren’t going to measure every food item down to the gram then just eat a ton, then eat less on your cut while maintaining your protein intake